Looking back at past autonomous and anarchist responses to disasters, which includes efforts like Occupy Sandy in New York,
we immediately come across the Common Ground Collective that sprung up
in New Orleans in the Lower 9th Ward which was founded by Malik Rahim.
At the center of the action was long time anarchist organizer Scott
Crow and in this interview we discuss how the Common Ground Collective
and Clinic grew to include 7 clinics throughout the neighborhood and
over 200 community gardens.

Scott
argues that anarchists and autonomous anti-capitalists need to
concentrate their efforts on building up revolutionary infrastructure
and dual power. Towards this end we spend a lot of time talking about
what this could look like and how a project similar to Common Ground
could possibly be built today.

After
this podcast was recorded autonomous and anarchist groups began to
respond to the Harvey disaster and currently are organizing supply
lines, working on the ground, and are raising money. Check out the above
tweets for how to plug in.